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The Mozartian Historian

Essays on the Works of Joseph R. Levenson

By: Joseph Levenson

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The Mozartian Historian

Essays on the Works of Joseph R. Levenson

By: Joseph Levenson

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1976.

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The Mozartian Historian

Essays on the Works of Joseph R. Levenson

By: Joseph Levenson

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Essays on the Works of Joseph R. Levenson

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Confucian China and its Modern Fate

Volume One: The Problem of Intellectual Continuity

By: Joseph R. Levenson

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Confucian China and its Modern Fate

Volume One: The Problem of Intellectual Continuity

By: Joseph R. Levenson

First published in 1958 These volumes analyze modern Chinese history and its inner process, from the pre-western plateau of Confucianism to the communist triumph, in the context of many themes: science, art, philosophy, religion and economic, political, and social change. Volume One includes: · The critique of Idealism · Science and Ch'ing empiricism · The Ming style, in society and art · Confucianism and the end of the Taoist connection · Eclecticism in the area of native Chinese choices · T'i and Yung · The Chin-Wen School and the classical sanction · The modern Ku-Wen opposition to Chin-Wen reformism · The role of nationalism · Communism · Western powers and Chinese revolutions · Language change and the problem of continuity

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Routledge

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1136572457

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Revolution and Cosmopolitanism

The Western Stage and the Chinese Stages

By: Joseph Levenson

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Revolution and Cosmopolitanism

The Western Stage and the Chinese Stages

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In 1965, Joseph R. Levenson began working on a new trilogy to follow his earlier study of modern Chinese intellectual history, Confucian China and Its Modern Fate. By 1969, he had already sketched out basic outlines of the work, which was to be called Provincialism, Nationalism, and Cosmopolitanism. It was to consist of three volumes: one sounding the general themes of the arrangement, and two other elaborating its motifs. Accidental death tragically cut short Levenson's life and the preparation of the work. He did leave behind, however, an embryo of it in the form of this book, Revolution and Cosmopolitanism. Based upon a careful analysis of a wide selection of Western plays translated into Chinese during the twentieth century, Revolution and Cosmopolitanism tries to set the Communist Cultural Revolution into a new kind of historical perspective. Beginning with the demise of a Confucian China which "new youth" intellectuals found too provincial for their palates, Levenson shows how those same cosmopolitans in the 1920s and 1920s damed later Communist intellectuals of the 1950s for being to receptive to non-Chinese values. As Red Guards attacked symbols of a feudal Confucian past and a bourgeois foreign present, China slipped into a new sort of provincialism. Levenson analyzes their transformation with profound subtlety. Convinced that revolutionary China cannot forever seal itself off from universal cosmopolitan influences, he expresses sympathy throughout with the dilemma of rootless intellectuals in a society searching for a particular non-intellectual identity. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1971.

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0520378423

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9780520378421

Liang Ch’i Ch’ao and the Mind of Modern China

By: Joseph R. Levenson

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Liang Ch’i Ch’ao and the Mind of Modern China

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The distinction between “history” and “value” is the ground of this penetrating work. Liang Ch’i-ch’ao began writing in the 1890’s, as one who was straining against his tradition intellectually, seeing value elsewhere, but still emotionally tied to it, held by his history. How history contrived such a tension, how its release in Liang went together with the release of Confucian China from life, is the grand subject. And in drawing the times out of Liang’s intellectual life, Mr. Levenson contributes much of more general interest—a new understanding of the concepts of anachronism, analogy, contemporaneity, the generation, historical relativism, historical context, cultural and national identity, personal identity, and the distinction (crucial to comprehension of why ideas ever change) between “thinking” and “thought.” “A brilliant study of the life and work of an exceptional writer who shaped the political thought of modern China...Told with a humanist understanding far removed from the dry-as-dust manner usually ascribed to front-rank historians...this detailed account of a maker of modern China will interest not only the scholar in Far Eastern affairs, but will hold enthralled all students of the human mind in its never-ending quest for adjustment in a world of change.”—Asia Major “Why was the Confucian tradition found wanting? Why was westernization rejected? Why was Nationalism not enough for China? To these and many similar questions Liang’s life and writings provide the best answer. Mr. Levenson has interpreted them with real insight into the nature of Chinese civilization.”—Times Literary Supplement “Advances enough brilliant and challenging hypotheses to invigorate studies of Chinese intellectual history for a long time to come....[Levenson’s study] shows throughout a compassionate understanding of the harsh dilemmas, the bitter tragedies that the last century has brought to all Chinese.”—Arthur F. Wright

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Pickle Partners Publishing

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1789128226

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Confucian China and its Modern Fate

Volume One: The Problem of Intellectual Continuity

By: Joseph R. Levenson

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Volume One: The Problem of Intellectual Continuity

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113657252X

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Confucian China and its Modern Fate

Volume Two: The Problem of Monarchical Decay

By: Joseph R. Levenson

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Confucian China and its Modern Fate

Volume Two: The Problem of Monarchical Decay

By: Joseph R. Levenson

First published in 1964 These volumes analyze modern Chinese history and its inner process, from the pre-western plateau of Confucianism to the communist triumph, in the context of many themes: science, art, philosophy, religion and economic, political, and social change. Volume Two includes: · The Republic: Confucianism and Monarchism interwoven · Confucianism and Monarchy: The basic confrontation · The evolution of the Confucian Bureaucratic personality · The limits of despotic control · Monarch and people · The Taiping Relation to Confucianism · The Japanese and Chinese monarchical mystiques

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1136572805

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The Mozartian Historian

The Mozartian Historian

The Mozartian Historian

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Confucian China and its Modern Fate

Confucian China and its Modern Fate

Revolution and Cosmopolitanism

Revolution and Cosmopolitanism

Liang Ch’i Ch’ao and the Mind of Modern China

Liang Ch’i Ch’ao and the Mind of Modern China

Confucian China and its Modern Fate

Confucian China and its Modern Fate

Confucian China and its Modern Fate

Confucian China and its Modern Fate

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